Jason Bosse, Morgan Aubrey and Makela Williams are among Scott High School's students learning leadership and life skills in the Fostering Leadership in Youth, or FLY, program.

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Fostering Leadership in Youth, or FLY, sessions meet for 30 minutes each Wednesday in order to help teachers and students build trusting, respectful relationships together that not only help students achieve more, but also give them meaningful life lessons.

"This idea started about three years ago," said Principal Brennon Sapp. "We did a Gates Foundation survey, and we ranked lowest in the nation. Seriously, we were in the bottom two percentile in the way our kids felt about us. We had to do something." ...